Barry Bonds blasts his record-breaking 756th career home run in the bottom of the fifth inning against the Washington Nationals at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Aug. 7, 2007.

One of Jack Chorley’s first baseball memories also happens to be one of the greatest moments in the history of the sport.

Chorley was 6 when his father took him to a San Francisco Giants game on Aug. 7, 2007. They were sitting in the nosebleed seats of what was then AT&T Park when Barry Bonds hit his 756th career home run, surpassing Hank Aaron’s longstanding record.

“You could hear the crack of the bat — for months,” Chorley told me. “And the crowd was roaring and everything. And since then, I will say, I think I’ve had a little extra love and admiration for Barry Bonds.”

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Bonds’ record and his other baseball accomplishments have been tainted by the overwhelming evidence that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his career. Despite being the home run king, Bonds is not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

For Giants fans like Chorley and me, excluding Bonds is an injustice. Chorley makes the case for putting Bonds into the Hall of Fame in an Open Forum on Thursday.

Bonds was denied entry........

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